Religious Festivals

Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say

2013-05-17 16:34:02

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...

Buck Showalter shows off laid-back Dallas style

2013-05-02 05:00:00

Few Americans are on the road more than the manager of a major league baseball team. But Buck Showalter, the Orioles' famously persevering manager, rarely stays put even in the offseason, when he's canvassing the country for new talent. After all, being...

Dream home: Renovated home gathers family to the farm

2013-04-18 13:16:00

When hearth and home — together with a growing family and an onsite family business — are at the center of day-to-day living, a small and dated one-story farmhouse in Ellicott City begins to burst at the seams. To keep their extended family...

Bel Air Methodist Church hosts 'multi-sensory' labyrinth for Holy Week

2013-04-01 18:06:48

Inside Bel Air United Methodist Church, visitors on Good Friday were not entering the fellowship hall but embarking on a journey through Jesus' last week in Jerusalem. Palms and cloaks lay at the entry to the makeshift holy city. A lush garden of...

Eagle Archive: Reflecting on Easter with grace and peace

2013-03-31 05:28:00

Happy Easter. Grace and peace to you. In Carroll County, the celebration of Easter has always had an emphasis on the religious aspects of the holiday. However, childhood thoughts of Easter in Carroll are also filled of memories of community Easter egg...

Springtime snowfall belies the warm season ahead [Commentary]

2013-03-28 07:06:00

The snow on the day after the Christian observance of Palm Sunday and the first day of the Jewish observance of Passover was certainly an unusual occurrence in Harford County. The most vital of holidays for both faiths are very closely associated with...

Tabernacle Church takes Easter scenes to shopping center parking lot

2013-03-28 09:33:00

The first year members of the Tabernacle Church organized a drive-through scenes of Easter, traffic backed up on the Baltimore/Washington Parkway as curious folks drove to the church tucked away off South Laurel Drive to see what it was all about,...

Who's doing Easter brunch in Baltimore

2013-03-26 08:20:00

Easter's on its way. We're rounding up brunch options in the area. If you want your restaurant's Easter Sunday brunch offering listed, drop us a line at the email address at the bottom of this post. Before the brunch listings, we threw in a cooking...

A family grows along with their Timonium chocolate emporium

2013-03-27 11:51:00

Jenny and Ben Hauser took something of a leap of faith in 2005, when barely a year after the couple met, they were engaged to marry and opened Glarus Chocolatier in Timonium. Two children, three locations, and eight years of marriage later, the...

Easter week services and special events in Anne Arundel

2013-03-25 09:31:00

Holy Week services •Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, 7606 Quarterfield Road in Glen Burnie, will host the following services: Passion/Palm Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. March 24. Maundy Thursday service of Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m. March 28....

St. Stephen Lutheran Church's second annual Procession of the Palms

2013-03-25 08:27:00

Cars honked, people waved and one woman yelled "Jesus is alive!" as she drove by. That was the scene along Wilkens Avenue near Maiden Choice Lane Sunday morning as members of one Arbutus church began Holy Week in preparation for the Easter Sunday...

Palm Sunday gathering at City Hall offers blessing for Baltimore

2013-03-24 13:53:00

While several homeless people gathered on benches on the plaza outside City Hall on Palm Sunday, a crowd of 60 churchgoers from congregations around Baltimore stood at the front door to pray for them — and for other needs facing the community...

ROME, ITALY - MARCH 29: Pope Francis looks down as he presides over the Way of The Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday March 29, 2013 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis is taking part in his first holy week as pontiff.

2013-03-29 00:00:00

Catholic faithfuls represent the Holy Burial on Good Friday, as part of Holy Week activities, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

2013-03-29 00:00:00

A man portraying the role of Jesus Christ takes part in a procession on Good Friday in Yumbo. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter.

2013-03-29 00:00:00